Dell Latitude D600

The Dell Latitude D600 was released on 3/12/03. At the time of its release it was met with great reviews. Despite its age, it can prove to be quite a capable machine. With a couple exceptions, Linux support for the D600 is outstanding. Most of its components work automatically with Arch.

CPU Scaling

Some BIOS revisions don't work properly with acpi-cpufreq, likely due to the driver being buggy or incorrect DSDT tables. If you're experiencing problems, flash your BIOS to A16 (the latest version.)

Resuming from sleep

There is a serious problem with KMS in the radeon driver that prevents normal resume from sleep mode with this laptop. This will remain unfixed for the foreseeable future. (see: Redhat Bugzilla #531825) Setting AGPMode to 1 will workaround the issue. Another workaround, with works with varying degrees of success, is to set a primary password in the BIOS.

Video Card

Use the open source "xf86-video-ati" radeon driver. ATI dropped support for the Radeon (RV250) Mobility FireGL 9000 after catalyst driver version 8.28.8.